A summary is below. More details are available on our State Employment Page.

March 12, 2018

Summary

• Kansas added 200 jobs and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.5 percent in January according to Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data.

• Over the past twelve months, Kansas added 9,100 jobs and the unemployment rate fell by 0.4 percentage point from 3.9 percent.

• In January, Kansas's private sector added 300 jobs and over the past twelve months, it created 7,500 jobs.

• The number of unemployed Kansans fell by 1,218 in January, and over the past year 2,738 Kansans found jobs.

• Kansas’s labor force participation rate decreased to 66.4 percent from 66.5 percent in January.  Since last year, the labor force participation rate fell 0.4 percentage point.

• The national unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.1 percent in February.  State employment and unemployment data for February is scheduled for release on March 22, 2018.  The national employment situation report for March will be released on Friday, April 6, 2018.